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In the realm of aesthetics, music spans the gap between matter and metaphysics. Music is an aesthetic model for all forms of art.
Music is all math and vibes. It doesn’t inform us like words or pictures do. Its “language” is a balancing act of sound and silence based on syntax not semantics. Tones have no meaning but it’s their relations to each other - the differences between them – of which music is made. Music and art aesthetics are independent of the physical world. Beethoven was stone deaf when he wrote his Ninth.
Absolute music doesn’t tell stories but it evokes feelings. If I’m moved by a good guitar solo, it’s not just due to modes and moods, sympathy or empathy, but by the genius of the artist – the sense that he or she has captured lightning in a bottle
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The Mona Lisa, Leonardo DaVinci (Right)
Some time ago I created a short video called Leonardo's Photo which ridiculously suggested that Leonardo DaVinci painted the Mona Lisa in an instant, much like a photograph.
At the time the idea was very laughable but thanks to Adam and Jamie from Mythbusters (the TV Show) they've shown it's possible to paint a Mona Lisa in 80 milliseconds . Well almost. Who knows how long it took to build their paint gun machine and can it paint a Van Gogh without having to reload and reprogram all those guns?
Anyhow, continuing along those lines, many people wonder about the Mona Lisa's enigmatic smile
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We've just enhanced the artists' blogs so you can add your Favorite Links to your blog pages. This is a great way to recommend websites to your readers and to exchange links with other people on the Internet. Look for "My Favorite Links" as a new feature listed inside your studio in the member menu under the category "Blog".
Having links to your blog and ArtId gallery from other websites also helps raise the amount of hits to your ArtId, and exchanging links with other websites you admire helps you create a network of like-minded art partners.
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Tara Reed is a licensed artist who has written several books " How To Get Started In Art Licensing", “How to Find, Interact and Work with Manufacturers who License Art” and "Repeat Borders and Patterns". Her blogs are interesting, informative and will certainly make you want to find out more about an often overlooked avenue for artists to sell their work. Tara is graciously sharing her experience in the industry and her business background with artid members. Please visit her Art Licensing Information Blog to learn more about Art Licensing
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In my piece on Monet I said that, while he was not as resonant for me as Manet or Cezanne, he was an artist whose inventions were so powerful that all later European artists had to react in some way to their implications. I realize that I have left behind another artist about whom the same can be said: Caravaggio. Coming at a time when the schism in the Christian church was dominating the European political and social scene, and when the implications of Renaissance naturalism were opening new avenues of artistic exploration, Caravaggio, in is short career, was a towering force.
Caravaggio had three great inventions. The first was to abandon the idealizing classicism of the Italian Renaissance in favor of an uncompromising realism
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I’ve previously written about the enviable enthusiasm of children and the contagious excitement evident both in their art, and their art making. I believe there is another important lesson embedded in that subject, and it’s one that I’m reminded of nearly every single day in my vocation. The scope of this lesson extends beyond my professional boundaries of teaching kids art and often convicts me in my personal life as well. Its significance is also deeply rooted in my firm belief that all educators, regardless age or subject area, must remain candidly self-reflective about everything we do in our role as teachers
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I wanted to share this wonderful video clip with the ArtId community. By way of introduction, Best Buddies is a non-profit dedicated to enhancing the lives of people with intellectual disabilities by providing opportunities for one-to-one friendships and integrated employment. For the last 3 years, Best Buddies Springfield
has paired local artists with Best Buddy artists to create art for auction at our annual Artistic Abilities Fundraiser.
This year, we were fortunate to have Fuzzy Clock Productions (fuzzyclockvideo.blogspot
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It doesn’t seem like a hundred years ago that Wilhelm Worringer published Abstraction and Empathy (Abstraktion und Einfühlung). His thesis on the psychology of style is a primer on modernism that has influenced artists from Kandinsky onward. Written just after Cezanne painted his “Bathers” and a year before Picasso’s “Les Demoiselles,” it marked the shift in the arts from academic towards the primitive and linear styles rediscovered in artifacts like African tribal masks and Japanese woodcut prints. It anticipated Cubism and Art Deco too. It’s a freeze-dried view of the organic nature of things.
This book challenged my perspective on abstract art
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ArtId has been grasciously granted the right to reprint this comprehensive art forgery article by Joseph C. Gioconda from The New York Law Journal Mr. Gioconda is a partner at DLA Piper (US) specializing in trademark infringement litigation and anticounterfeiting strategy. Thank you Mr. Gioconda! Picture: Under the Canvas is the hidden portrait discovered underneath Vincent van Gogh's painting 'Patch of Grass' (1887)
October 14, 2008
For centuries, forged works of art have made their way into circulation, creating a host of problems for museums, artists, collectors, brokers and dealers
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This is a great article about creative envelope addressing and the Glasgow Mail Centre. Enjoy!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/arts/2008/10/05/sv_harrietrussell
The purpose of this blog is to feature my Art Comedy Videos but before I get to that (in the next post) let's back up and see how I got here.
For the last two years I've been creating videos for YouTube however I'm not a performer and have never taken a single drama class. I'm not a comedian and I have no desire to become one. I'm not even that confident filming myself with a camera - especially when other people are within earshot.
Despite that, and a fairly monotone voice, I still get in front of my camera and do my best to act out or perform my comedic ideas (or talk about my own art).
Online video is a great way to promote your art. It doesn't require any expensive equipment
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Image(right): Campbell's Soup Can, Andy Warhol, 1964
Artists don't usually just pick their ideas out of thin air. There's usually a number of influences that are absorbed and mulled around before the links are found that enable the creation of a new piece of art.
For instance, just how did Andy Warhol come to focus upon the humble Campbell's Soup Can? Maybe it had something to do with his Mother...
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I'm going to go back 100 years or so to an artist I passed over: Goya. In the spectrum of artists from those of structure to those of feeling, Goya is definitely the latter. But what is remarkable is the way he anticipated the romantics and 20th century expressionists, working at the height of the Enlightenment.
The Enlightment thinkers of the 18th century believed in the ultimate and inevitable perfectability of man through reason. They largely ignored the existence and power of the bestial side of man, a fatal mistake. The Greeks were wiser: thouogh they elevated reason as man's great gift, they never forgat the other side of his nature. Their image was of the horse and rider - today the Id and Ego - and understood the need to respect and control the bestial side
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He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches. George Bernard Shaw is credited with this line from his 1903 play Man and Superman, although it is unknown whether this was actually the opinion of Shaw, or merely a line of dialogue for one of his many characters. Either way, it is a platitude that still finds its way into our modern conversations with a great degree of regularity. And while there is no definitive way to determine how many believe this sentiment, the fact that it shows no sign of fading into obscurity after a century of use says a great deal.
Misconceptions like this one are so unfortunate because not only are they fueled by ignorance, but they perpetuate it as well
As things change, they remain even more the same. Ways of interacting, communicating and building commerce change, but the reasons behind it do not.
The means we use to communicate and socialize have evolved according to need and capability. Fifteen years ago, when the computer took a firm hold on our society, calligraphers were up in arms, this would put us out of business, the same way we thought movable type would. We failed to embrace the technology as a tool then, as an addition to our traditional tools. Now, we are more comfortable with the technology and use it to stay in and improve our business.
The internet has flung more information at us than we can handle, given us ways to socialize and do business we don’t even understand
If you read my last post, you will see Ron English's Abraham Obama, an image that blends the faces of Senator Obama and Abraham Lincoln.
In response, artist and featured ArtId blogger Michael Mize asked which United States president could we blend McCain with. My answer was Bush. Here's his rendition of what I call John McBush!
Thanks Michael. I think this is so appropriate
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Here are my thoughts about abstract art and this piece that I created with watercolor pencils.
When the eye sends light signals to the brain, those impulses goes through the Lateral Geniculate Nucleii to the visual cortex (the projection screen in the back of the head) which then routes the signals back to the LGN via the information processing channels of the “subconscious” including memory, associations, personality and all other so-called intentional states of mind like beliefs and desires which are extensions of the intellect and emotions, and which account for things like empathy and spirituality in art and religion.
Without this perceptual feedback, the owner of the brain cannot recognize the image before his eyes
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ArtId now has Calls For Art opportunities for our artist members!
Posted by professional art consultants, businesses, and private collectors looking for artwork for specific projects, the new Calls For Art feature on ArtId allows artist members to submit their ArtId studios directly to the contact person for that project. This is a service provided to you by ArtId. However, as always, we do not take any commission on the sale of your work. Good luck!
Post an Art Project
Know anyone who's looking for art? Let them know they can post an art project or commission on ArtId for free
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There is a long history between cats and calligraphers. Written in the margins of an illuminated manuscript at the Abbey of St. Paul at Reichenau, Corinthia, a poem about the scribes cat, inspired a book telling of the adventures of Pangur Ban who finally ends his travels at Cashel Castle in Eire, keeping it rodent-free and where he was greatly loved. Pangur Ban is Gaelic for "white Pangur" or "little white cat." Complete poem below.
Going just by anecdotal research, a surprising number of calligraphers/artists own cats. What then is the connection? Is it our love of graceful curve and pleasing line? The contrast, in my case of black and white?
Simon Kramer, a painter, writes in his very entertaining blog